Baron Rothchild Haut Medoc 2007: Medium-bodied with red fruit, tar, some green notes (dirt and freshly humid forest earth), licorice and tobacco in good balance with reasonable acidity and soft tannins rising on a moderately long finish. I guess it will cellar well for a few more years (2016) if properly stored but I don't expect it will undergo noticeable improvement.

Adam M wrote:I could see a non mevushal version of this wine lasting 9 yrs. but the mevushal version, which is post-2004, is much more difficult to see.

It is indeed mevushal but as the wine is not showing any signs of that 5 years past the vintage, I believe the method used was same as Herzog Reserve thus I've good hope for this wine. I just had with a friend the Herzog Reserve Syrah 2003 2 days ago and it was crazy good, still very much alive and kicking!

this is the link to Cellar Tracker and the Non-Kosher or Regular Version of the same wine... Nu?Maybe if someone had one in the last two years...

I had a bottle of Herzog Bordeaux Delagrave from 1994 Middle of last year and it was not viniger or Dead and that is a basic wine... Stored Perfect as well.

Any outside thoughts on this... Seems like a Very good Bordeaux should last at least 20 Years. Yet my basic one lasted almost 20.. Mind you it was not perfect yet had fruit, nice Chocolate and not corked at all

I last tried this wine approximately 10 years ago (perfectly cellared at Levana's restaurant) and it was already well on its way to wine heaven. It was a damn good wine back in its day (as was the '89; from '94 on they went mevushal and the wine turned to absolute crap). I have fond childhood memories of my father buying this wine for yom tov and special occasions. It sold for close to $30 which was a fortune for a bottle of wine back then. On the other hand, the choices for good kosher wine back then were either the Rothschild or Yarden/Gamla--at least until some fabulous French wines came out from the '89 vintage (Grand Noyer, Giscours Margaux, etc.) and Gan Eden came on the scene.

When I was in Yeshiva in Israel in the late 90s, I scored a few cases of the '89 Rothschild for a really good price and they drank wonderfully through 2000 or so--helped get me through those yeshiva years

I'm just wondering about this kosher vs. nonkosher that Adam M was saying. Everything under the Barons Eddie and Benny label was kosher, because it was contrived in the first place- that is, there's no estate, it's no chateau, it's just a wine put together for marketing purposes by M & G, which was partially owned by Rothschild, as far as I know. And the only place that would have any validity is the kosher market, since the nonkosher was at that time well educated in Bordeaux (as opposed to the 1960s and early 1970s, when wines like Mouton Cadet came out to make volume plays.

Yes Craig.. All work done at Chateau Clark ..Grapes sourced from Haut Medoc as listed on the Label. Confirmed NON-Mevushal. Being a great vintage, great wine maker, solid grapes and the need on a first run to impress; how could none of this hold on.. I had a Delagrave Herzog from 1994' last year that actually drank ok;) so for none of these MUCH better of everything too not hold on seems well strange?